From: Rozanne
Date: February 19, 2010 4:40 AM EST
To: David & Thomas
Subject: Re: Random thoughts
A Zebra was running on the expressway yesterday. He
escaped from the circus at Phoenix Arena.
(First grade class yesterday waiting for counselor
to come speak to class) Me: what does the counselor do?
Student: She does what she does?
We have Las Vegas weather for a while. We will have
a high of 60• tomorrow, and 55• today.
Teacher who doesn't want to teach today--I take the
phone off the hook and don't return messages.
It's good everyone who's frustrated with the IRS
doesn't fly a plane into one of it's buildings. I'm also glad every
professor who doesn't get tenure doesn't shoot and kill her coworkers.
I can't wait to see Ralph, the world's largest
bunny, on The Early Show. That's right up there with more about Tiger
Woods' apology for adultery. Who needs God, a 12 step program, therapy,
priests and confession when you can call a press conference. Guess it's a
slow news day.
I wonder if I should call a press conference and
publicly apologize on TV to my children for all my shortcomings as a mom and
promise to be a better mom for the rest of my life.
Maybe today I'll start the Southbeach Diet and
resume the battle of the bulge.
Thrill of the day--I take off the CPAP mask and get
a cup of coffee in my new favorite cup. I am not giving up coffee on the
Southbeach Diet.
Q: What should I give up for Lent? A:
skydiving; hiking in the dessert; trying out for American Idol, Biggest
Loser, and Survivor; watching The Bachelor, Jerry Springer, and The 700 Club.
I hope that will be enough of a sacrifice. :)
Time to meditate and clear my mind of any other
random thoughts left after sharing my random thoughts on cyber paper with my
two sons.
Have a great day. love you much.
Mom
I don’t watch TV anymore, for months really. I
think it’s uncreative. I do however have dreams similar to zebras walking down
the street. Nice visual of the fish and zebras. Mom, I cancelled my Bank of
America account. They screwed me for the last time. Now I’m going to devote a
lot of photography to some of this. I'm joining teams with a lawyer in
town to combat them. They will eat themselves alive before it’s all over. As
one of my friends says, its really Bank of India. She sends payments to them,
Bank of America/India. Nothing has been returned yet. They are all crooked
liars. They basically kept me on that day you and I went to the bank so they
could raise the percent interest up a little more.
On Feb
19, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Rozanne wrote
Good for you. Did you get back with girl in Atlanta
so she can follow up and see what happened? She'll get something done;
she did for me but it took persistence.
Get pictures of the foreclosures in Las Vegas,
interview the family, find out which bank foreclosed on them. Document,
document, document. This is as important to history as the dust bowl, the
depression, etc. Maybe you can get an artists' grant to do your project.
I'm sure Henderson/Las Vegas has some kind of arts council. There
may be grants from national arts foundations. Google them and apply for a grant
with all of them. I had numerous grants from City and County to fund my
poetry projects with kids in inner city schools and the elderly in nursing
homes. I even got a corporation to publish about 1000 copies of my book
Windows back in the 70s.
The grants are out there and so is money from
corporations.
I bet small businesses in Las Vegas would support
you at least $ 500 or maybe even $5000 as a tax write off. Talk to the
Chamber of Commerce!
Understate by a photo and interview of what's
really happening to ordinary people like you. Be sure and get a signed release
for photo and interview.
I think the economy is the biggest issue-- people
going under by losing jobs, health bills, and credit card debt. Start
locally and move out. In fact start with where you live.
Mom
On Feb
19, 2010, at 12:45 PM, David wrote:
Yeah, I agree Thomas. NV is at the epicenter of a
historical period. You're lucky to be there with talent to document.
Check out Walker Evans.
From: Rozanne
Date: February 19, 2010 1:52:33 PM EST
To: David & Thomas
Subject: Re: Random thoughts
Yes, definitely Walker Evans. I think that's whom I
meant when I said Edward Weston. Check out both of them. You are
definitely as good a photographer plus you have more technical equipment than
they did.
I only had small grants, but it was enough to give
me legitimacy so I could do my poetry projects. (maybe $700 or $1000). I
also got a grant from the council for intown neighborhoods and schools. This
was all about the time of the custody junk-- I was the unstable artist.
David was in middle school and you were in elementary when I did the
poetry in six or seven schools on my little bitty grants. It got me in the door
as the city sponsored me.
You can do it, Thomas. At least you don't have two
young children and a custody suit accusing you of being an unfit father. I was
about your age when I did all that. David probably remembers more than you
do. I still have all the 100s of children's poems from that era during
the child murders. Also I have multiple photos and poems of the elderly
in that period. I was quite prolific at the time, but soon I was in so much
grief I only wrote about custody for years and abandoned my work with children
and the elderly. I bet David would help you write your first grant.
Besides I bet he could write some grand haiku to go with your photos and
interviews.
I think I told you for years I wanted to travel
across country and live in shelters, interview folks, tale photos and write
poems of folks who ends up in such dire circumstances. Instead I've gone
the incognito route substituting in schools. Now I've lost the desire to
go on the road. Do it now because this energy will not be there for long if you
don't act on it.
Mom
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